About TRACY NNEKA OSOKOLO

Tracy Nneka Nnanwubar is a Literary Fellow of the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has been awarded a Literary Residency at the Village Institute in India and granted a Colonel Farleigh S. Dickinson International Scholarship to attend the Farleigh Dickinson University, U.S.A. for an MFA in Creative Writing. At age 19, the Commonwealth sponsored This is Lagos a documentary about her life broadcast on British and Nigerian Television. Her short fiction has been published in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, India, the U.S. and the U.K. She was one of the writers invited to the 2012 Olympics in London by the South Bank Centre where Her Majesty the Queen is a Patron. Red Pepper and English Tea is her first novel.